Headteacher’s Blog
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 27 Jan 2023I hope this newsletter finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to share some updates from our school.
Firstly, I am thrilled to report that the start of our OPAL play program has been a great success. The children are really enjoying the different style of playtimes and we are seeing a lot of positive engagement and creativity - see them at play here
In other news, we would like to remind parents to book school dinners for the following week by Wednesday. This will ensure that we have enough meals prepared for all pupils.
Additionally, we would like to inform you that next week will be our parent/child meetings with teachers. You should be receiving invites via email, please make sure to check your junk mailbox if you do not see them in your inbox.
Lastly, we are excited to announce that we will have a tennis coach working with our Reception and Year 1 pupils. We believe this will be a great opportunity for the children to learn and improve their tennis skills.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Tommy L & Marlon S 🤩 Reception Muhammed A & Eleanor T 🤩 Year 1 Bella-Rose B & Amber E 🤩 Year 2 Jack T & George H 🤩 Year 3 Naveena C & Rumaisa S 🤩 Year 4 Isla-Rose S & George H 🤩 Year 5 Sophie D & Jacob L 🤩 Year 6 Poppy L & Ava TA 🤩 Computing Harvey D 🤩 Amazing job this week. You can see some of their work here
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Teddy S 🥳 Key Stage One Jack T 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Harley S 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Ellie D 🥳 Well done for earning so many housepoints for your house. The winning house this week is St. David 🏴
2nd: St. Andrew
3rd: St. George
4th: St. Patrick
Top Doodlers
DoodleMaths: Y5 🧮
DoodleSpell: Y3 📝
Attendance
The winning class this week with 97.42% is Y4 🏆
Well done for being in school so regularly this week.
Whole school attendance is 93.5%, which is in line with national schools but slightly above in Swindon. Well done everyone, let us keep this % moving upward.
I hope you have a great weekend and we will see you all on Monday.
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 20 Jan 2023I hope you are not too cold during this cold snap that we are having, the weather forecast for next week is 10 degrees so it will feel like summer haha.
Next week we are launching our new playtime and lunchtime programme, OPAL (Outdoor Play & Learning). You will receive an email with all the details and how this improves children's learning by having good playtime. In the email, there is a questionnaire about playtime, and I would be really grateful if you could complete this as quickly as possible, as it is important to us to have your thoughts too.
The children will complete their questionnaire during Computing lessons and talk through what they would like to see on the playground to enhance their play.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Arthur H & Kolby L 🤩 Reception David G & Ben S 🤩 Year 1 Frankie B & Alex W 🤩 Year 2 Oliver S & Lilly Mae L 🤩 Year 3 Mollie C & Phoebe D 🤩 Year 4 Thomas M & Elisey G 🤩 Year 5 Lyla A & Sasha C 🤩 Year 6 Finley L & Daniel C 🤩 Super work from all our stars - you can see some of the children's work by clicking here
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Marlon S & Mikhail S 🥳 Key Stage One Arya C 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Tayla P, Mollie C, Ryker H, Charlie S 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Daniel C 🥳 Well done to all of you for earning so many housepoints and helping your house.
The winning house this week is St. George 🇬🇬 well done to you all.
2nd place: St. Patrick
3rd place: St. Andrew
4th place: St. David
Top Doodlers
Maths: Y6 🧮
Spell: Y2 📝
Attendance
This week's winner with 98.64% is Year 2 🏆 brilliant job of being in school every day.
Whole school attendance is 93.33%. - let us see if we can get this to 95% by April.
In other news...
Next week
Monday 23rd is Chinese New Year and we will be celebrating at school in different ways, this year, it is the Year of the Rabbit. Jacket potatoes will still be on offer but there will be some Chinese food available for children to taste too 🇨🇳🥢
Friday 27th, we will be remembering Holocaust memorial day. This will be age appropriate and a remembrance that we observe every year ✡️
I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Just to remind you school breaks up for half term on Friday 10th February.
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Thu 12 Jan 2023What a fantastic week! St. Patrick had their celebration afternoon for winning the last term. See the pictures below to see how happy they all were.
Our Head boy and Head girl have created their second podcast (much better than me at keeping up to date). You can listen to that here
Stars of the Week
Nursery Ronnie F & Lily H 🤩 Reception Roman E & Mia RM 🤩 Year 1 Ethan S & Arya C 🤩 Year 2 Niamh C & Benjamin RP 🤩 Year 3 Grace C & Eva G 🤩 Year 4 Amelia H & Bobby A 🤩 Year 5 Ewan C & Neya L 🤩 Year 6 Sophia B & Ruban N 🤩 Well done everyone. You can see some of the children's work here
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Lyla DS 🥳 Key Stage One Sebastian P 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Tayla P 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two George G 🥳 Super work earning points for your houses. This week's winner is St. Patrick 🇮🇪, well done.
2nd place is St. George
3rd place is St. David
4th place is St. Andrew
Attendance
This week's winning class is Nursery with 100% attendance. Well done for winning the attendance cup again 🏆
Whole School attendance is 93.1%
Top Doodlers
Maths - winning class is Y6 🧮
Spell - winning class is Y5 📝
Well done on leading the way and making sure we doodle daily.
Just to remind you that the consultation around changing the Christmas holiday is still open. I have had some emails in talking about positives and negatives, so keep them coming as there are some good points that I hadn't thought about, so thank you.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 06 Jan 2023Welcome back. If I haven’t seen you this week, Happy New Year. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and an enjoyable break.
Swindon Borough Council has launched its attendance strategy and I will attach the booklet and send out in an email next week. This shows how we have to send letters out as pupils drop below certain percentages over a 12 week period.
If you have not seen your emails, please check as our club list went out this week and all clubs start next week, including our Friday clubs.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Hunter T 🤩 Reception Travis F 🤩 Year 1 Hugh R 🤩 Year 2 Enhar T 🤩 Year 3 Nathan K 🤩 Year 4 Thomas C 🤩 Year 5 Kai S 🤩 Year 6 Rayyan Z 🤩
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Eleanor T 🥳 Key Stage One Niamh C 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Thomas M 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Zachary M 🥳
Well done everyone for earning housepoints for your house. This week’s winning house is St. Patrick 🇮🇪
2nd place: St. David
3rd place: St. George
4th place: St. Andrew
Doodle Learning
Remember, you should be completing doodle maths and doodle spell as your nightly homework. This week’s winners are:
Maths: Year 3
Spelling: Year 5
Attendance
This week’s winning class with 100% attendance is Nursery 🏆 well done. Our youngest children showing the way to be in school everyday.
Whole school attendance is 93.0%
In other news…
We have had some staff changes over the Christmas period. I ran out of time to tell you all before we broke up, so planned to include the information in my first blog.
Mrs Turay has left the nursery and we wish her all the very best in her new role. We are excited to announce that we welcome back Mrs Carter-Selwood, who will be the children’s key worker in nursery and will complete all reports and parent evenings. Mr Davis, Ms Perre and Miss Bennetta will still work in the nursery at different points.
We also welcome back full time Mrs Harris. She will now be Year 1’s class teacher full time, which will free up Mr Hatcliffe to concentrate on SEND interventions and completing his Deputy Headteacher role, including teaching swimming.
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Mr A
